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Hit Pay Dirt with this Migraine Coding Advice

Published on Thu Feb 22, 2018

Knowledge of 'aura' can demystify Dx code choice. Since ICD-10 came along with its greater specificity, getting just the right diagnosis for a patient's migraines has gotten a lot tougher. So, naturally, patients who report for treatment of migraines aren't always easy to diagnose. The specificity is a net gain, however; all that hard work on the proper code choice [...]
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